Ugandan comedy was once feted as the wave of the future. Today, English-speaking comedians have retreated, with Ugandan jokesters declaring they make more money from paying audiences abroad ...

Umm Kulthum's father, an imam, recognised her talent early on, but fearing the ire of early 20th-century Egyptian society, disguised her as a boy so she could ...

Yes, but when is the start of spring? “Spring starts in the northern hemisphere when the sun is directly over the equator, so ...

The Rhine River, one of Europe’s longest and most picturesque rivers, is famous for its stunning landscape. The steep hi ...

Half a century after her death, Umm Kulthum's singular voice still echoes through busy streets in Egypt, across time-worn ...

Looking back on 20th-century history, including the case of Japan, nation-states destroyed the private sphere as totalitarianism progressed. The private sphere in more common terms can be called ...

Here’s a toast to Marianne Faithfull, a true rock & roll legend. Nobody was ever better at being an old rock star, except maybe Leonard Cohen. Yet the difference is that Cohen didn’t release his debut ...

The question “who is a Jew” predominates a majority of the discourses around the Judaic community and has done since the time that a popular and motivated enquiry into Jewishness first began. While ...

Every Black History Month and Juneteenth, pioneers in African American history are often mentioned like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali and Harriet Tubman. They are revered and in ...

Black History Month is being celebrated in Montreal with a varied slate of cultural and community events all month long.

Administration Weighs Purge of F.B.I. Agents in Trump-Linked Inquiries President Trump plans to examine scores of agents involved in investigations tied to him and his supporters, according to ...